 That is the best part of beauty, which a picture cannot express ; no, nor the first sight of the life. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.  Bacon's Essays - Page 45by Francis Bacon - 1881Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...that of favour, is more than that of colour ; and that of decent and gracious motion, more than that of favour. That is the best part of beauty, which...hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man can not tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler; whereof the one would make a personage... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...that of favour, is more than that of colour ; and that of decent and gracious motion, more than that of favour. That is the best part of beauty, which...hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man can not tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler ; whereof the one would make a personage... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...that of favour, is more than that of colour ; and that of decent and gracious motion, more than that of favour. That is the best part of beauty, which...hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man can not tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler ; whereof the one would make a personage... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - Imaginary conversations - 1829 - 570 pages
...out of divers faces to make one excellent." BARROW. Whereof is of which, not of whom. NEWTON. If " there is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion," then Apelles was no trifler in taking the best parts of divers faces, which would produce some strangeness... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1833 - 228 pages
...that of favour is more than that of colour ; and that of decent and grac;ous motion more than that of favour. That is the best part of beauty which a...proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apelles, or Albert Duiier, were the more trifler ; whereof the 'one would make a personage by geometrical proportions... | |
 | Thomas Harttree Cornish - Women - 1836 - 538 pages
...that of favour is more than that of colour ; and that of decent and gracious motion more than that of favour. That is the best part of beauty which a...man cannot tell whether Apelles, or Albert Durer, trifled most; whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical proportions : the other, by taking... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...that of favour is more than that of colour ; and that of decent and gracious motion more than that of favour. That is the best part of beauty, which...that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. r A man cannot tell, whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler ; whereof the one would... | |
 | Fashion - 1870 - 726 pages
...could do, A little year has done. Tiasley's 3faga;ine. YIBTUE is like a rich stone — best plain set. That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express. Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt and cannot last. — Lord Bacon. \i I were to... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...of fafavour, is more than that of colour ; and that of decent and gracious motion, more than that uf favour. That is the best part of beauty, which a picture...that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A mail cannot tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler ; whereof the one would make... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - Art - 1842 - 318 pages
...skilfully knit together, they produce what is called a fine person." And Lord Bacon remarks that, " There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — A man shall see faces ; that if you examine them, part by part, you shall find never a good ; and yet altogether... | |
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